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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
3
An old-fashioned pole supports bean crops but becomes obsolete on large truck farms. Trellises, though designed for beans and peas, are costly for widespread use. The method favors straight rows by laying a garden line and placing lima beans along the line at regular intervals.
Instructions describe building a wire and twine trellis with end posts, No. 8--9 wire, No. 11 wire, and grape or light wool twine for beans and peas. Posts set 6 to 7 feet high, stakes every 30–50 feet, rows four feet apart. Training favors easily gathered pods and long lasting galvanized wire.
The article explains sorting apples by size to satisfy diverse buyers. Large buyers pay more for uniform big fruit while many families and boarding houses favor medium or small apples for value and longevity. It notes market needs and consumer motives in selecting fruit.
The agricultural department plans introducing novel foods from abroad after a $20,000 congress appropriation. Findings include the crosne from France and Japan, the large fruited ever bearing strawberry, Smyrna muskmelon, and pistache nut. Begets hardy marrows from Algeria and new asparagus lettuce and onions varieties from Europe.
Practical tips for gardeners on crop timing soil mulch and pest control. Notes suggest planting sugar corn late June lifts market prices, using green clover as mulch for raspberries and blackberries, and thinning pests like pea lice squash bugs and maggots with sand kerosene. It urges humane pest control and warns against neglecting sweet potato cultivation.
A farmer explains building a milk cooling unit in a corner room with double walls packed with sawdust and a brick tank cased in boards. The device costs little and works as well as costly ice chests, per the Orange Judd Farmer. Also notes on white beans on sod and cabbage worm control methods.
Bradstreet's reports stronger distribution trade driven by better weather and crop prospects. Wheat May, June crop data support optimism. corn lags but warms, cotton outlook improves. Dun & Co. notes rising retail activity, wage trends easing, and hopes for factory pauses. Wheat futures retreat on official crop estimates. pork markets show unusual speculative interest. Weather and crop data bolster confidence in overall trade tone this month.
The Northfield, a 38 year ferry on the Staten Island line, sank after colliding with the Mauch Chunk off Whitehall Street. Many passengers were thrown into the East River with reports of possible deaths, as captains differed on the disaster’s severity and the right of way.
A Pere Marquette passenger train struck a double carriage at the Hamilton avenue crossing in Oak Park Flint killing Maj. George W. Buckingham and three others Abbie Buckingham Mrs. Thomas Applegate and Mrs. William Humphrey all residents of Flint and Adrian. The collision occurred as the crossing view was limited by adjacent factory buildings.
Five indictments were returned by the Grand Rapids grand jury in the waterworks probe. Named defendants include Thomas F McGarry Stilson V MacLeod Lant K Salsbury Gerrit Albers and Henry A Taylor of New York. Salsbury MacLeod and others were arrested and arraigned. Albers pleads not guilty to bribe charges. In Seattle the Yukon is open and a Dolphin steamer report notes $40 000 in gold dust and banked totals prompting Klondike output guesses from 15 to 25 million dollars.
Gen. Frederick Kneffer, president of the board of regents of the soldiers' monument and former colonel of the Seventy-ninth Indiana, died Friday night in Indianapolis after years of invalidism. He was a prominent Indiana figure.
The American Bible Society plans editions of Scripture in 20 Filipino dialects. A Zion Church pipe organ in Spring City, Pai, dating from 1791, remains in use. South India’s Christian community reaches 608,878 with 159,797 communicants, and growth continues. Rev. George Grenfell is tasked by Robert Arthington to build missions across Africa, aided by royal connections. Rev. Edward Everett Hale reflects on retirement timing and shifting age thoughts.
The narrator extols the Lackawanna Railroad for its electric lights clean cars on time and low smoke from anthracite coal, promising hotel like comfort and unsurpassed scenery. The piece notes broad public approval and declares testing the service makes ardent admirers of the road.
A brief exchange from Stray Stories shows a father and son in a playful exchange about a boy being a blockhead. The humor centers on a pun about “chin” and “blockhead” as a teacher’s remark is recalled.
The Pan American Exposition announces summer rates effective June 1. Round trip fares: one and one third for travel within the sale date and 15 day return. one fare plus 1.00 west of Cleveland. one fare Cleveland and east with 10 day return. Tuesday coach excursions in June to October at one cent per mile with 3 day return. Prompt inquiries via agent or C A Sterling T P A Ft Wayne Ind.
Comic dialogue from the Philadelphia Record features Mrs Muggins complaining about her husband who spent 40 000 on an old seat in the stock exchange after six months of urging new parlor furniture. The exchange joke highlights domestic frictions and high finance contrast.
The notice advertises an extended leisure tour with long stops in the park. Private coaches are provided for exclusive use on the drive. Pullman sleeping and dining cars are arranged with a defined group limit. An Escort from the American Tourist Association led by Beau Campbell is listed along with ticket inclusions for expenses. The Chicago departure is via the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway on Tuesday July 9 at 10:00 p.m.
A brief notice notes a woman cherishes reading a letter in the company of other women and smiles at times, highlighting a simple social moment in a World column.
An assortment of old advertisements and quotes, promoting Allen's Foot Base powder for foot comfort with claims to ease tight shoes and cure corns and sweating feet, plus Piso's Cure for Consumption and Hoxsie’s Croup Cure. The clippings also include quips from Ally Sloper and Chicago Daily News.
A compilation of ancient facts touches Greenland ice, prehistoric skating, Egypt’s military roots, umbrella use in America before England, historical inks, lettuce import to England, organ invention credits, Phoenician and Greek naval focus, and cavalry mace origins. Brookfield Mo white schools show equal sex counts. June name origins tied to Junius. New York Supreme Court judges insist jurors must appear in person to excuse themselves.
The article notes an Ohio grower producing hickory nuts with exceptionally thin shells that can be broken by hand. It also mentions the human windpipe structure, crime costs via taxation, potential fire insurance losses from a steel trust decision, trolley line workers in Buffalo, railway officials’ views, and a Newark florist whose watchdog was stolen along with its chain from a greenhouse.
Grand Trunk Railway prepares to handle summer visitors with the new Detroit and New York Express starting June 2 from Dearborn Station Chicago at 11 32 a m. The route passes Mt Clemens Port Huron Canada via St Clair Tunnel and Niagara Gorge to Niagara Falls Buffalo and beyond with stopover options and a Marta meal service between Chicago and New York. Reservations and information available from J A Burgis at 249 Clark St Chicago Ill.
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